The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-02-05
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the question Of lager beer, and this too
looks like a moral question, which may
eventually come under the supervision of
the church. They talk of reducing it to
three cents a glass. This produced the
widest excitement in the saloons; and the
"Rumseller's Protective BenevolentAssoci-
atien" has overwhelmed us with the fright.
full threat-that If the lager beer men per-
sist in their felonious purpose, they will
within sixty days reduce whiskey to five
cents a glass. THAT view of Paradise
this promised reduction affords. To get
respectfully fuddled on ten cents and glori-
ously drunk on quarter; TO get. your
pocket pistol filled with double Y Y sour
mash for fifteen cents, and gallon of the
real old stuff, warranted to knock you out
on the first round, for dollar now be-
gin to understand the true value of my
American citizenship, and to realize that
Elysium is not dream nor Hesperides a
fable. Whiskey at five cents glassl IL
won't bear thinking of. Shades of John
b. Cough and Father Matthew, what are
we coming to?
A shocking case is now before the courts
of mother who had her fourteen-ye year-old
daughter arrested for vagrancy. 1t came
out upon the trial that the wicked mother
had sold her own on the human shaihbles
two years before, and for all thai time had
lived on the wages of her shame This
shocking revelation shakes our faith in our
common humanity. The society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children have the
case in hand, and IL is to be hoped that the
daughter may be rescued, and the wicked
mother punished. ,.. -s,4.
The tolls close slowly around the Doodle
Aldermen, and the Infamous scoundreis
who bought them. Will Billy Maloney the
man who divided the plunder come back?
AYE, there's the rub" Ifhe tells what
he knows, goodbye to the bribeFs!! It's q
hard necessity which makes such despiear'
BILE rascals ministers of justice; but, we
could net have landed McCabe in States
Prison except for Duffy, and Jaehne might
still have been an Alderman engaged IN re-
ceiving stolen goods if it had not boen for
his fellow scoundrsl, Waite; mostsbig fish
are caught with smaller ones. cG4 %;
We have not altogether got over our coal
scare-though there is no scarcity, for. one
million and eight hundred thousand tons
are all ready for shipment to this city, If
anybody can be found to load it and carry
it across the river; but over there two or
three hundred strikers stand watch and
ward-they won't load the coal themselves,
and they will prevent anybody else doing it
if they can; meanwhile thousands of poor
people are suffering; they don't hurt the
rich man with whom they profess to be at
war; they suddenly raise the price of his
product millions of dollars, but the poor
man with whom they profess 10 have SYM
pathy is made to pay the piper. 1t is the
peor who suffer by this coal strike, God
help them in this bitter, frosty weather
To show the heartless tyranny of the strik-
ers: benevolent Assemblyman, out of his
salary of $1,000, gave $1,000 to the World
to buy coal for the poor. The strikers were
asked to unload it, and although it was to
keep some of their own class from perishng
they refused to do it. This act of theirs,
striking at the poor and suffering when
charity comes to their aid, depriyes them
of all sympathy from the public. e - a..
Our sister city of Brooklyn has often of
late been said by some of her NEST promiu-
ent preachers to be very wicked city; but
even supposing 1t only 10, be up to the
general average, that is certainly bad enough.
But it is tolerably certain that the devil is
not going to have it all his own way in
Brooklyn, for Doctor Munhall is now con-
Quoting revival at DR.. Talmage's Taber-
nacle, and the harvest has been great.
do not know exactly how many have been
converted, bat on last Sunday between
three and four hundred joined the church,
and Dr. Talmage stated the church member
ship was nearly four thousand. 1t was a
great day for the Tabernacle, and DR.. Tai
mage said so. AS l sat looking at his
happy, ugly face beaming with delight and
satisfaction, as he shook hands with the
fold, and as l watched the windmill swing
of his arms and listened to the hard,
metallic, nasal sound of that terrible rasp-
ing voice, and then looked at the mighty
congregation, l could not help recalling
those beautiful lines with which my dear
old mother sometimes rocked me to sleep
long years ago.
"God moves In mysterious way
His wonders to perform"
by the way, New York is very much
exercised just now at the recent news from
the other side of the terrible evictions in
Kerry, where poor people haye been driven
from their homes, and in many cases the
houses themselves have been leyeled with
the ground. This is terrible, but it may
be news to the people throughout the
country, that there is not a day in the week
in This city, through all this bitter winter
weather, that poor people are not thrown
out on the sidewalk by cruel landlords
because they cannot pay their rent. Our
organized charities and individuals wol k
constantly; but the field is too large for the
harYesters. 1t was only on Saturday thu
saw an eviction as crhel as any in Kerry,
and the landlord was Irish as well as the
tenants'he evicted. On. one occasion / saw
woman and her children thrown out upon
the sidewalk, where they remained, all
| night, huddled together; and on another,
"a couple of old wOmenr-the youngest ssver
seventy, and they, too, spent the eKtire
night upon the sidewalk. So that all the
cruel evlctions are not in Kerry. .Rr